Movie Review - Army of Shadows

L'Armée des ombres (1969)
directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
seen on the screen at Film Forum

Imagine the French Resistance by way of La Ronde but directed by Melville. Episodic but full circle. Easy as running a red light in a gangster chase through Paris.

Malick, Coppola, Kubrick, Spielberg, Eastwood, Stone - they can keep their silly wars in a shot glass next to movies this great and this big.